{"product_id":"a-house-in-the-homeland-armenian-pilgrimages-to-places-of-ancestral-memory-paperback-softback-9781503631649","title":"A House in the Homeland; Armenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503631649","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eArmenian Pilgrimages to Places of Ancestral Memory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarel Bertram (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503631649\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 April 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 35 halftones, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Original and engrossing, \u003ci\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e relates individual experiences that resonate with universal themes of family, trauma, and home. Carel Bertram's gifts of empathy and storytelling make for a book that is at once heartbreaking and inspiring. Essential for anyone interested in place, memory, and mass violence.\"—Heghnar Watenpaugh, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Pages\u003c\/i\u003e \"Carel Bertram's engrossing and well-researched story of Armenian pilgrimages is of universal importance, resonating with all of us searching for our own personal history and our place within it. This book is not just important to Armenians, but valuable to anyone interested in understanding where their family comes from.\"—Esther Safran Foer, author of \u003ci\u003eI Want You to Know We're Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e \"Deeply knowledgeable about memory, trauma, pilgrimage, and the sacred, Carel Bertram offers both scholarly expertise and an eloquent, moving narrative. \u003ci\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the mutually transformative links between the lost pre-Genocide homes and current homelands of Armenian pilgrims. A truly wonderful book.\"—Khachig Tölölyan, founding editor of \u003ci\u003eDiaspora\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e speaks to a pressing concern for many Armenians: How to sustain memory of an event that is difficult to trace on its landscape, and which is officially denied by its perpetrator. Bertram has shown that the gap between historical fact and material evidence can be spanned by memorialization and pilgrimage, by witness and dialogue, and for her interlocutors, by keeping their ancestors alive through their family memory-stories.\"—Aram G. Sarkisian, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Religion\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable book that offers a unique insight into the thoughts, feelings and deeds of the Armenian genocide survivors and their descendants – the people who have lived their lives in the shade of tragic events that more than a century ago changed the course of Armenian history. Bertram tells a passionate story that engages a reader emotionally as well as intellectually. Skillfully written, her work is highly informative but, at the same time, leaves a reader wanting more – more precious stories of human courage, perseverance, search for meaning and the power of memory.\"—Konrad Siekierski, \u003ci\u003eMemory Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"This moving ethnographic study documents Armenian Americans' pilgrimages to eastern Turkey to visit the sites where their ancestors experienced the traumas of the 1915 genocide by Turkish authorities and the related attempts to erase Armenian identity from Turkish society....Including histories, songs, poetry, literature, and personal memories—many originally in Armenian, Kurdish, and Turkish—this enthralling book shares these travelers' stories as they explore their 'Armenian-ness'.... Highly recommended.\"—V. Clement, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful examination of soulful journeys made to recover memory and recuperate stolen pasts in the face of unspeakable histories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSurvivors of the Armenian Genocide of 1915 took refuge across the globe. Traumatized by unspeakable brutalities, the idea of returning to their homeland was unthinkable. But decades later, some children and grandchildren felt compelled to travel back, having heard stories of family wholeness in beloved homes and of cherished ancestral towns and villages once in Ottoman Armenia, today in the Republic of Turkey. Hoping to satisfy spiritual yearnings, this new generation called themselves pilgrims—and their journeys, pilgrimages. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCarel Bertram joined scores of these pilgrims on over a dozen pilgrimages, and amassed accounts from hundreds more who made these journeys. In telling their stories, \u003ci\u003eA House in the Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e documents how pilgrims encountered the ancestral house, village, or town as both real and metaphorical centerpieces of family history. Bertram recounts the moving, restorative connections pilgrims made, and illuminates how the ancestral house, as a spiritual place, offers an opening to a wellspring of humanity in sites that might otherwise be defined solely by tragic loss. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs an exploration of the powerful links between memory and place, house and homeland, rupture and continuity, these Armenian stories reflect the resilience of diaspora in the face of the savage reaches of trauma, separation, and exile in ways that each of us, whatever our history, can recognize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Where Memory Takes Place\u003cbr\u003e  1. The Family Mansion\u003cbr\u003e  2. An Erased Village and an Inhabited House\u003cbr\u003e  3. The House and Its Sacred Geography\u003cbr\u003e  4. Music as Sacred Memory and the Intrusion of the Profane\u003cbr\u003e  5. The House-Place and Memory-Stories\u003cbr\u003e  6. The Emergence of Rituals\u003cbr\u003e  7. Relics: Engaging the Spirits\u003cbr\u003e  8. Communion: A Unification of Souls\u003cbr\u003e  9. Sacred and Profane: A Poetic Encounter\u003cbr\u003e  10. Votives: For Reaching Home\u003cbr\u003e  11. Votives: For the Restoration of Something Lost\u003cbr\u003e  12. Ex-Votos: Gratitude\u003cbr\u003e  13. Shrines: Making Visible the Invisible\u003cbr\u003e  14. Blessings: At My Father's House\u003cbr\u003e  15. Homeland Music Performs the Village\u003cbr\u003e  16. Village Music Performs the Homeland\u003cbr\u003e  17. The Bus: Traveling Through a Trauma-scape\u003cbr\u003e  18. The Bus: Traveling as Wholeness\u003cbr\u003e  19. What Remains: \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Last Armenian\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  20. What Remains: Armenians \"\u003cbr\u003eEverywhere\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  21. What Remains: A Homeland of Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Conclusion: Ethnography as Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Poetry as an Analytical Framework\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523399741720,"sku":"9781503631649","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-house-in-the-homeland-armenian-pilgrimages-to-places-of-ancestral-memory-paperback-softback-9781503631649","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}